National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Albert Braz is an associate professor of comparative literature and English at the University of Alberta, where he is also the acting director of the Comparative Literature Program. He specializes in Canadian literature in both its national and inter-American contexts, and is particularly interested in literary representations of the encounters between Natives and Newcomers in Canada and the rest of the Americas. He is the author of The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2003).With Marie Carrière, he is co-editor of “Comparative Canadian Literature in the Twenty-First Century / La littérature canadienne au XXIème siècle,” a special issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 36, no. 2 (2009). Andrea Cabajsky is assistant professor of comparative Canadian literature at the Université de Moncton, where she teaches and does research in Englishand French-Canadian literature, and in gender and post-colonial studies. She publishes in the areas of Canadian historical fiction, theories of the novel, and comparative Canadian and British literatures. Her publications have appeared, or are appearing, in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel (Blackwell, 2010), Reading the Nation in English Literature (Routledge, 2009), Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009), and the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (31, no. 1), among others. Claire Campbell is an associate professor in history and Canadian studies at Dalhousie University. Her fascination with the Prairie West (and the research for this chapter) began during a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta. Now her nostalgia for Prairie skies belongs to her wider interest in how history, nature, and the arts shape Canada’s diverse regional landscapes. Paul Chafe teaches, among other courses, “Writing as a Cultural Act” and “Cultures in Crisis”at Ryerson University. He received his Ph.D. from Memorial University and is currently at work revising for publication his thesis on 237 238 C O N T R I B U TO R S Newfoundland literature. His most recent publications include “Beautiful Losers: The Flâneur in St. John’s Literature” in Newfoundland and Labrador Studies and“The Rock Unnerved: Reflections on a Self-Reflective Society and Literature” in the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Pilar Cuder-Domínguez is associate professor at the University of Huelva (Spain), where she teaches British and English-Canadian Literature. Her research interests are the intersections of gender, genre, nation, and race. She is the author of Margaret Atwood: A Beginner’s Guide (Hodder & Stoughton, 2003), and the co-editor of five collections of essays (La mujer del texto al contexto [University of Huelva, 1996]; Exilios femeninos [University of Huelva, 2000]; Sederi X I [University of Huelva, 2002]; Espacios de Género [Alfar, 2005]; and The Female Wits [University of Huelva, 2006]). She has been visiting scholar at universities in Canada, the US, and the UK: McGill (1997), Dalhousie (1999), Northwestern (2002), Toronto (2004), and Cambridge (2006). Her current research deals with Canadian women’s transnational poetics. Dennis Duffy, emeritus professor of English at the University of Toronto, and author of Sounding the Iceberg: An Essay on Canadian Historical Novels (ECW Press, 1986), is currently investigating memoirs and psychiatric practices during the Great War. Brett Josef Grubisic is the author of a novel, The Age of Cities (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006) and Understanding Beryl Bainbridge (University of South Carolina Press, 2008). He co-authored (with David L. Chapman) American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture 1860–1970 (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009) and edited two fiction anthologies, Contra/Diction: New Queer Male Fiction (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1998) and (with Carellin Brooks) Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000). He teaches English at the University of British Columbia. Shelley Hulan is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. Her essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, Essays on Canadian Writing, The Journal of Canadian Studies, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, and Canadian Literature. A book chapter on Susie Frances Harrison’s Crowded out!And Other Sketches will be published shortly in a critical edition of that text. C O N T R I B U TO R S 239 Owen Percy recently earned his Ph.D. from the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where he currently teaches...